Sharp County record., 1887-03-17
IN AN A WASHOUl.

iSdiu'' Heavy RlinS-One ana fer-
.,ves. Iust-Miraculous Escape
mr. If The Imperiled Passengers
March IA serious wreck,
~ washout, occurred at !oacnlh
he Iron Mountain railroad oaI
ed, We bv which two persons lost
Tor us and several were more or less
81 3 ior Injured. n o,od
Il, and y wears, an unmarried resident
a Mo. and an unknown man.
was carried away in the rush'
of the creek, which caused ehe
md the accident
( rcd. SO far as ascertained, were
,tmever, Columbus, O.; serious
about the head and body
Patella, Italy, laborer, passen-
vance sxarkana; contusions ABOUT INC
lisloh and lower limbs.
III so Rurns. st. Louis, one OF the pas-
; now ters: slight cut in the face
great Ilev. Engineer: severe contuslonS
and q face and body and toes OF lelt
your ,bed and badly bruised
Hatch, De Soto, fireman; seyeIai
}, but ,ontusions of the back and Douy
,aldwin, jamestown, n. y; CUT Ill
run Is wrist .a
1t is Ytcomb. San Jose, Cal; left hano
0,O)0
NIB is Reck Point Burnside, KY; con-
eled. about head and face.
die. m Fontaine. news agent on the
burn contnsions about the head and
Tho
nviL odv "a Mr. Byron was found in the
Il ut gear after the water had suoslueu,
70 its 4 been drowned and was not
for. mr. mutilated in any way. Inc
2 to as allowed TO remain in the coach
nate ,rpe o'clock IN the afternoon OF yes
will when it was taken to De Soto ana
/, the in charge of the Company's undef-
our Mr.. Robert COXWell. Ihe unknown
and was not recovered it supposedly
What been washed away in the HOOD
that persons injured were given inc
are ary medical attention, and some ol
What we're brought to St. Louis and sent
illcG Missouri Pacific hospital for treat
the
lose HERO OF THE WRECK:
zach Fitzgerald, one of the passengers
e to ~ am conductor, formerly from
,.,". aw York Il New England railroad,
ybo n the past two years and half nave
ro, a conductor on the st. Louis, iron
noi tain & Southern railroad. Twas on
na av home from st. Louis to Bismarck,
,i9b 81 reside just before we ran
.oir the trestle / was sitting
nv eat telking with Joe Guion, the con-
ne )rQrthe train, and George HerOerI
fr1 uctor of the local freight, who was
,o,, home to spend Sunday, after taking
~ un into St. Louis Saturday evening.
were talking about the high water,
~ 10 Herbert said it would be wonder II
ny id NOT have some wrecks tonight.
>. lad only finished saying this when the
I"' ~ came. and Guion said: 'We have
a it now and he turned to me and sad:
- ,d-bye, Fit2, and we shook hands ana
led to save ourselves as best we could.
'N7 soon as | saw the water we started
L kthrough the car. All the other pas
o' gers had left their seats in wild contu-
and when found | could not pass
0' lg the aisle | climbed over the backs OF
seats and called out; Break out the
iy 1dows and 90 out at the side.' l kicked
a window when the water was up to
o' waist and climbed on the window sill,
could not reach to climb on top, untl
IL" aductor Guion, who had followed the
- ne course of action, had succeeded IN
4 .ching the top Of the car (because
u was taller and could reach the ventlla-
Us \ gave me his assistance. then hoard
= rbert call my name from the end OF the
'' which was deepest in the water, say
. 2: Fitz, for Gods sake, help me out'
L Iucceeled in getting him on top, and he
|. en- held nv hand while pulled up three
ID hers from the same car. and some one
F. Sc helped me pull up two more from that
de-
We fhen went to the other side, where
. re rescued four more in the same way.
here wcre twelve of us on the top of the
y ar, and we were fifty feet from land,
I he water must have been at least ten 1eet
u leep. Conductor Guion and consulted
What i've should do. | asked him if he
.ould swim and he only said; It's bad
,ase.'
Itooli off all my heavy clothes three
times to swim out but others sad walt
Guion asked Can you get to shore,
Eitzp and / answered, yes; / can make
It., Finally when the car commenced TO
roll and swing down with the current as
if itwas about to jump and swim ashore,
and, before doing so, we shook hands ana
said good bye He jumped and l 1ol-
lowed him. Guion caught limb OF
tree and succeeded in climbing into the
tree and got from there to shore. ana
not catch the tree but went down WIN
the current some distance and succeeded
in Swimming to shore. 1t was broken
aud very rapid current. | was 1ol-
lowed bv Conductor Herbert and pas
senger. Herbert caught in the tree ana
the passenger followed me to shore
We then got the bell rope TO
the car by throwing the rope 10
Herbert in the tree and he threw it to the
car where it was made fast. We first sent
an axe over the rope to the car and cut
hole in the top of the car All the pasSen-
gers were landed by this rope and ra1t,
which was made afterward, except one
man, who was drowned in the car ana
who is the only one posiuVeiy
known to have perished. AS
Soon as we got to the top OF the car we
called to those at the rear of the tram 10
60 back and flag the Belmont train, which
was following close, and saw the brake
man 90 back. After we got the passen'
gers off the top of the smoker, the brake
man came to me and said Engineer helley
and his fireman, Hatch, were down tne
stream on tree He had heard them call
ing when he came in after Tagging NO.